Body Quotes
Posted by nabil medawar in Miscellaneous Quotes, Words of wisdom, tags: bodies, body, body and mind, human body, my body, our body, sick body, soul
A bath refreshes the body, tea refreshes the mind.~ Japanese Proverb
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.~ Joseph Conrad
A feeble body weakens the mind.~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
A healthy soul cannot live in a dry body.~ French Proverb
A little body often harbors a great soul.~ Traditional Proverb
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.~ Leonard Cohen
Better a sick body than an ignorant mind.~ Greek Proverb
Better to satisfy the body than to tarnish the soul.~ Chinese Proverb
Beyond my body my veins are invisible. ~Antonio Porchia
Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
Death is a shadow that always follows the body.~ English Proverb
Doctors purge the body, ministers the conscience, lawyers the purse.~ German Proverb
Do not refuse the body what it asks for.~ Mexican Proverb
Easier to bend the body than the will.~ Chinese Proverb
Eating and drinking holds body and soul together.~ German Proverb
Emotion always has its roots in the unconscious and manifests itself in the body. ~Irene Claremont de Castillejo
Faith is confirmed by the heart, confessed by the tongue, and acted upon by the body.~ Sufi Proverb
Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies. ~ Ken Wilbur
Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
He who has a straight body is not worried about his crooked shadow.~ Chinese Proverb
If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong. ~Thomas Jefferson
I love the body. Flesh is so honest, and organs do not lie. ~Candea Core-Starke
In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual. ~Bernard Le Bovier de Fontanelle
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.~ Jean Cocteau
It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.~ Lee Haney
Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.~ St. Ignatius Loyola
Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.~ Woody Allen
Master and servant — both have the same body odor.~ Tibetan Proverb
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.~ George Melton
One body cannot perform two services.~ Chinese Proverb
Our bodies are our gardens – our wills are our gardeners. ~ William Shakespeare
Our body is simply a social structure made of many souls.~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Sometimes your body is smarter than you are. ~ Body Quotes
Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live. ~ Jim Rohn
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The body achieves what the mind believes.~ Author Unknown
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.~ George Santayana
The body is killed by the mouth.~ Malawian Proverb
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in. ~ Body Quotes
The body manifests what the mind harbors.~ Jerry Augustine
The body never lies. ~Martha Graham
The body of joy is not so big.~ Nigerian Proverb
The body pays for a slip of the foot and gold pays for a slip of the tongue.~ Malawian Proverb
The character of a man lies not in his body but in his soul.~ Japanese Proverb
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.~ Thomas A. Edison
The eye is the jewel of the body.~ Henry David Thoreau
The heart is not simply suspended in a body but in a culture, a place, a time. ~ Mimi Guarneri
The human body is a machine which winds its own springs. ~Julien Offroy de la Mettrie
The human body is the only machine for which there are no spare parts. ~ Hermann M. Biggs
The labor of the body frees us from the pains of the mind, and thus makes the poor happy.~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The mind is the emperor of the body.~ Chinese Proverb
The physician prescribes the medicine, the vulture waits for the body.~ Turkish Proverb
There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.~ George Meredith
The shadow should be the same length as the body.~ Indonesian Proverb
The sickness of the body is the cure of the mind.~ Basque Proverb
Thick body, weak soul.~ Iranian Proverb
To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.~ John Donne
What is said over the dead lion’s body could not be said to him alive.~ Congolese Proverb
What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.~ Yiddish Proverb
When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.~ Saadi
When the head is sick the whole body is sick.~ Dutch Proverb
When the heart acts the body is its slave.~ African Proverb
When the heart is at ease, the body is healthy.~ Chinese Proverb
Where the body wants to rest, there the legs must carry it.~ Polish Proverb
Why do we alienate ourselves so much from our bodies? It’s that big piece of machinery attached to your head. ~ Carrie Latet
Wisdom is lost in a fat man’s body.~ Japanese Proverb
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.~ Mark Twain
You can wash your body but not your soul.~ Yiddish Proverb
Your body belongs to the Tsar, your soul to God, and your back to the squire.~ Russian Proverb
Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one. ~Astrid Alauda
Your soul to God, your body to dust, your property to your relatives, because thus it has been found written.~ Maltese Proverb
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